<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/" /> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW --- - All logs since last boot gone after crash/hard reboot" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61411#c2">Comment # 2</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW --- - All logs since last boot gone after crash/hard reboot" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61411">bug 61411</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:kay@vrfy.org" title="Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>"> Kay Sievers</a> <pre>You don't happen to run laptop mode, or any other thing that does tune the writeback or disk syncing? Can you please try something like: $ logger thisissometextilookfor; strings /var/log/journal/6a...9ea/system.journal | grep thisis MESSAGE=thisissometextilookfor It ends up immediately on disk here, as you can see. You can also check: $ strings /var/log/journal/6a...9ea/*..journal | tail -5 ... _SOURCE_REALTIME_TIMESTAMP=1363120145422193 And translate the usec to the readable date: $ date --date=@1363120145 Tue Mar 12 21:29:05 CET 2013</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the QA Contact for the bug.</li> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>